Donation Drive
This first donation drive of 2009 comes at a time of profound prophetic activity. I've been studying prophecy since the early ‘80s, and I've never seen a time of such dire headlines. Here are some banners I grabbed from Rapture Ready news from a single day:
Iran Holds Enough Uranium for Bomb
North Korea Ready for War
Palestinians Attack Troops with Mortars
Iran Hails Military Ties with Russia
Bank Shares Fall on Nationalization Fear
The news has become so negative, I can see a spirit of weariness sweeping over the body of Christ. With talk of economic collapse and liberals in full control of Washington, D.C. , Christians are becoming passive spectators of world affairs.
Now is not the time to withdraw from supporting the gospel outreach. We are facing a use-it-or-lose-it situation. I plan to go into greater deal next week, but I think our monetary system is doomed, and it’s important to invest your financial resources now while they still have value. You can stick a thousand dollars under your mattress, and five years from now, I doubt it will have enough value to buy a Big Mac at McDonald's.
The economic crisis has not affected the military spending of Russia, China, Iran, and Syria. The global meltdown has severely constrained their economies, yet they continue to spend billions on armament. Both Russia and China are working on totally modernizing their military forces. What they don’t know is that they are doing this to get ready for the fighting that will take place in the tribulation.
We Christians should have the same sense of urgency. The faster things move towards the tribulation hour, the closer we will be to the moment that the Lord Jesus instantly snatches us from this doomed world. What we have to fear the most is the loss of opportunity. When the rapture occurs, there will be no more updating of anything on the site.
Rapture Ready still ranks as the largest and most visited prophecy site on the internet. We have held this status for several years. We now have a network of more than 30 servers. Whenever prophecy becomes active in the news, people flock to RR for answers. Of course, when the ‘Big Event’ takes place, tens of millions of people will stream to the site.
Although we have a very broad audience, we have a very narrow support base. Because the site is so large, with over 20,000 pages, most people who visit RR will never read this Nearing Midnight page.
In order to accomplish all these tasks, the site needs your financial support. I call on every Bible-believing Christian to help us maintain this beacon of hope. As the world literally disintegrates around us, I ask: What other endeavor could possibly be of greater importance?
Rapture Ready also needs your prayer support. I am totally convinced that the reason RR has been so successful is because I periodically ask saints to prayerfully intercede for the site. I’ve seen dozens of other web ministries try every trick in the book to draw people to their domain, with little success. RR thrives because it is built entirely on God’s grace.
A convenient way to contribute to Rapture Ready is through a regular donation. PayPal subscribers and people who have their banks send funds to our P.O. box are a vital part of our ministry. If you're interested in signing up, you can find the link on the Donation Depot page. Donations can also be sent to our P.O. box at:
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--Todd
Russia Helps Iran Forge Nuclear Sword
United Nations officials said Thursday, February 19, that Iran now has enough enriched uranium to produce one nuclear bomb. This revelation comes just as the Obama Administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
“It appears that Iran has walked right up to the threshold of having enough low enriched uranium to provide enough raw material for a single bomb,” said Peter Zimmerman, a former chief scientist of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
The new figures come in a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, released on Thursday. This revealed that Iran’s production of low enriched uranium had previously been underestimated.
When the agency carried out an annual stocktaking of Natanz in mid-November, Iran had produced 839kg of low enriched uranium hexafluoride – more than 200kg more than previously thought. Tehran produced an additional 171kg by the end of January.
“It’s sure certain that if they didn’t have it [enough] when the IAEA took these measurements, they will have it in a matter of weeks,” Mr. Zimmerman said (“Iran holds enough uranium for bomb,” Daniel Dombey, Washington, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f367aada-fec8-11dd-b19a-000077b07658.html).
Experts say Iran has now reached the point it has enough fissile material to build a bomb in just a matter of months. This is a red line that Israel has previously said it could not allow Iran to cross.
The Middle East continues to be perched on the cusp of action that diplomats around the world fear could be a trigger to the first unleashing of atomic warfare since the end of World War II when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared on numerous occasions that he intends to wipe Israel from the face of the Middle East. This isn’t just the raving of a mad dictator. Ahmadinejad is a deeply committed Muslim of the most radical sort who believes that bringing on Armageddon will cause the twelfth Imam, the Islamic version of the Messiah, to come forth and install Islam as the one religion on earth. This action can only take place when Israel and the “great Satan,” America, are removed from the planet, so the ravings go. The likelihood of Binyamin Netanyahu becoming Israel’s next prime minister sets the international community’s collective teeth on edge even more, the right wing leader of Likud having vowed to do whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Russia is complicit in the apocalyptic scheme of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and others who take the Koran at its horrific, literal worst. This does not surprise the student of Bible prophecy who reads God’s Word literally when studying prophecy yet future.
It is clear in reading the Gog-Magog invasion account in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 that Russia–Rosh—will be at the forefront of taking the Israel-hating coalition down over the “mountains of Israel.” Though Gog, the Russian leader, will have much different “spoil” (KJV) in mind than will the Islamics such as Persia (Iran), the amalgamation of people who intend to wipe Israel from the Middle East map will be driven by the same master as the nations from the West who will send a diplomatic note of protest. Antichrist’s budding regime will crave the one place on earth that is the center of God’s dealing with mankind.
I believe that while Gog will want primarily the oil fields of the Middle East in order to procure exclusively all oil of the region, the Islamics will be driven by ancient hatreds stemming back to the rift between Ishmael and Isaac, between Esau and Jacob. Antichrist will want Mt. Moriah and the very spot where the Ark of the Covenant sat within the Holy of Holies. It all makes for a quite volatile mixture that we can see beginning to form in our headlines today.
To begin this course of luciferian action, Russia and Iran must collude to develop a sphere of influence in the region. Russia has been hard at work in making the most of forming alliances in areas north of Israel. Particularly, that prophetic nation has been working to help Iran’s nuclear program come to fruition.
MOSCOW — Iran’s defense minister said today he hopes to obtain new weapons from Russia to upgrade the nation’s arsenals.
Iran has relied on Russian military assistance in the past and hopes to continue doing so, Mostafa Mohammed Najjar said…
Najjar wouldn’t elaborate on what specific weapons Iran was seeking. He met with his Russian counterpart and toured some Russians weapons plants during his five-day visit that began Monday…
Russia also has supplied weapons to Iran, including Tor-M1 air-defense missiles, despite U.S. and Israeli complaints. However, Russian officials have rejected claims that they have provided Iran with more powerful, long-range S-300 air defense missile systems.
Supplying the S-300s to Iran would markedly change the military balance in the Middle East and the issue has been the subject of intense speculation and diplomatic wrangling for months… (“Iran hails military ties with Russia” www.bostonherald.com)
With the core of the Gog-Magog corps stage center in developments for the wind-up of human history, the nuclear sword about to dangle precipitously above God’s chosen nation like the mythical sword of Damocles, it is again incumbent upon us to issue Jesus’ admonition: “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).
--Terry
***Terry to Speak on The American Apocalypse: Is The United States in Bible Prophecy?***
Terry will address the crucial topics covered by his new book with Harvest House Publishers in a one-day prophecy conference with Southwest Radio Church Ministries on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The conference will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas, at Embassy Suites. We will post details as soon as they are available.
Southwest Radio Church is the oldest Christian broadcast in America, having been continuously on the air since 1933. To check their website, go to swrc.com.
Terry’s three half-hour programs with Dr. Noah Hutchings, pastor and president of Southwest Radio Church Ministries, will be aired in March. We will give a heads-up on when they can be heard. After that, the broadcasts will be archived on swrc.com.
Terry and Todd prayerfully hope many of our Rapture Ready family and friends can be with us at Little Rock, which is centrally located in Arkansas, and in the nation.
***More details in the coming weeks***
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